Here’s how the $130 million Hyperloop Hotel could be the future of luxury travel

Get ready to blow your mind

You’ve often found yourself wishing that you didn’t have to go through all the hassle of purchasing flight or train tickets, packing and lugging around those heavy bags just to travel some place for a short vacation. But what if you were told that you could skip the entire travel process and enjoy your trip in the destination you’ve chosen to visit? And without even leaving your hotel room! Brandon Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas turns every lazy traveler’s dream into reality with his innovative concept of the ‘Hyperloop Hotel’ which would connect 13 of the largest cities across the states namely – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Sante FE, Austin, Chicago, Nashville, Washington DC, New York and Boston. It is designed in a way that it would connect the hotels across these cities through a high-speed transit system that is proposed to be developed by Elon Musk. The idea is to transport passengers to their desired city, without them having to leave the comfort of their hotel room.

Having entered the global competition along with 64 other participants from 24 countries earlier this year, it was no doubt that Siebrecht bagged the ‘Radical Innovation Award’ which is an annual award for imaginative, futuristic hotel designs. The design of this futuristic hotel plan was inspired by DevLoop, a test track that was made functional for the Hyperloop project just outside of Las Vegas. Musk and his team have been conducting trial tests that would estimate their capacity to transport people from one Hyperloop hotel to another at the speed of up to 750 miles per hour in a podlike vehicle. The system, upon success, claims to be able to send passengers from Philadelphia to New York in barely 10 minutes.

If you’re entranced by the mere speed of this system, brace yourselves for more. The flat fee for guests to be transmitted across cities is $1200, exclusive of the amount they need to spend to actually spend a night in the room. This system is a boon to business travelers and for people who just need a weekend getaway. The construction estimate of each room of the hotel is approximately $10 million and would be made of recycled shipping containers, skilfully tweaked to give a luxurious feel. Each room unit has been proposed to include an office area, a living room along with a flat-screen TV, a sprawling bedroom and a luxurious bathroom.

The essential technology required for building a Hyperloop Hotel currently does not exist but Siebrecht believes that the construction of this hotel could be successful as well as feasible in the next five to ten years.